Palm m130

(Discontinued)- Posted March 2002

Based on the
industrial design of the Palm m125,
the m130 was released March 4, 2002 and was Palm's first mid-range
model offering a color display and a rechargeable battery. The
m130 looks similar to the m125 but has a blue case and silver
faceplate. Like the m125, it has an SD slot for expansion, a
USB cradle, and a flip lid. It runs Palm OS 4.1.

The ruggedized
case sports a rounded, modern industrial design, the screen is
42% smaller than larger screened Pilots, though it maintains
the same 160 x 160 pixel resolution. This means that you'll see
the same amount of stuff on the screen, but that stuff will appear
smaller. The display has thousands of colors and is very sharp
in indoor light and readable outdoors (some color displays wash
out in bright sunlight). The display looks very nice: it's quite
bright and saturated. Palm originally said it was a 16 bit, 65,000
color display but it turns out that wasn't true (this info came
out 8/20/2002).

The unit has
an SD slot for expansion capability. It comes with a USB sync
cradle (you can purchase a serial cradle separately if you need
one). Est. Price $279 US

Pro:
An affordable color PDA from Palm! Nice quality screen and rechargeable
battery. Con: not flash-upgradeable, but since Palm will be switching
the ARM processor family with OS 5.0, current Motorola Dragonball
processor units may not be supported anyway.

Display: 58,000?
color STN LCD, well, Palm says thousands of colors,
but we don't know how many right now since this
was originally billed as a 16 bit, 65,000 color
screen but it turns out Palm mis-labelled it. Great
indoors and outdoors. Screen resolution remains
the same as previous Palm models (160 x 160 pixels)
but the screen is 42% smaller than other Palm models
(except the m100 series).